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August 2008
We have now competed all of the track laying on our Dagnell End layout apart
from the curves at end end that take scenic section of the layout into the
fiddle yard. A start has been made on the construction of the station platforms
for the layout. Joe Leyland actually born Brian Leyland
had supported the
Redditch Model Railway Shows for more years than anyone can remember. It will
surprise many he was never actually a Club Member and just turned up year
after year to man the second hand stall. Joe died at home on Friday 15th
August 2008 after a short illness and will be sadly missed by many model
railway enthusiasts
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July 2008
This
Club website is now nine years old. The Dagnell End layout has taken two
major steps forward this month. Firstly all of the baseboards are now made and
track has now been laid in the station area.
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June 2008
The Club's Annual General Meeting on Tuesday
3rd June once again provided
few surprises and the Committee where re-elected without change for a further
twelve months. The Club has been in it's new Club Room for two years. Work is
progressing well on the last of the baseboards.
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May 2008: We
started the month by running our first engines in DCC mode on our "Picheroak Sidings"
test track layout. This test track layout is designed for us to experiment with
before using the techniques on our much bigger Dagnell End layout. One of
the corner boards for Dagnell End is now complete. A start has been made on the
boards for the other corner. Once complete we will have completed the
construction of all of the baseboards. Many of the buildings round the station
area are nearing completion. The Club took our Arrowmouth layout to the
Trainwest show over the weekend of the 17th and 18th May
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April 2008:
Work
will once again continue on general construction of our new Dagnell End layout.
Construction of the corner baseboards for this layout is progressing well with
one end of the layout now complete. Over the weekend of the 12th and 13th April
the club took our Arrowmouth layout to the Jarrow show in Tyne and Wear.
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March 2008: Work
again continued on general construction of our new Dagnell End layout.
Construction of the corner baseboards for this layout is progressing well. These
are needed to allow the remaining building to be constructed. Construction has
speeded up in recent weeks as the Club gained four new members all very
keen to contribute to layout construction after the Redditch show in February.
Keeping up this pace of layout construction we will be soon onto the next
project the much talked about 7mm layout. The Club rounded off the month with a
successful weekend exhibiting Chilcompton at the York Show
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February 2008: Work
has continued on our new Dagnell End layout with about 85% of the all the
buildings now scratch built though may still need final finishing. Not content
with building one layout we have started another called "Picheroak Sidings". This 6ft long test track layout will be used to experiment with DCC
operation that will be used on Dagnell End. It is planned that "Picheroak Sidings" will form part of the Club's display
stand at the Warley National exhibition in November 2008. The Club staged another successful Redditch Model Railway
Exhibition over the weekend of 9th and 10th
February. The attendance at the exhibition was some 9% up and was certainly the best we have had
at a Redditch show for
over 25 years!
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January 2008:
The Club will start 2008 very much like we ended
2007 by continuing the construction of our Dagnell End Layout. The club has
decided to use DCC control for Dagnell End and will be constructing a small test bed
layout to experiment with DCC operation.
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Page last updated 28 August 2008
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